They caused many victims among children, who were attracted by the shape and colour of those weapons, which resembled harmless toys: a year after the first Gulf war, doctors in Kuwait had found that 60 per cent of the victims of unexploded ordnance - mostly cluster munitions - were children aged under 15.
Un año después de la primera guerra del Golfo, los médicos de Kuwait constataron que el 60% de las víctimas de las municiones sin explotar, en su mayoría bombas en racimo, eran niños menores de 15 años.